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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Update on the state of AI drug discovery companies: AI Does Not Make It Easy by Derek Lowe

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

lmao incredible

Then there's BenevolentAI. I first wrote about them in 2018, as the company stated that it had "created a bioscience machine brain, purpose-built to discover new medicines and cures for disease." How's the machine brain doing these days? Well, the company's lead program failed in the clinic last year, and in April announced major layoffs.

just who buys this shit? this reads like refined crypto nonsense

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Forget Gladwell

All nonfiction writers can end up writing incorrect or controversial things, but why does every Gladwell book push half-formed and inaccurate theories? For years, my loose feeling about Gladwell was that he writes like someone who doesn’t care about being correct, which is not a way I would describe any other author I've encountered. There is something uniquely odd about his work.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? let's hope so

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

They added sleeps to training jobs? Sounds like they deserve a raise for improving energy efficiency instead…

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Considering Glaze and Nightshade have been around for a while, and I talked about sabotaging scrapers back in July, arguably, it already has.

Hell, I ran across a much smaller scale case of this a couple days ago:

Not sure how effective it is, but if Elon's stealing your data for his autoplag no matter what, you might as well try to force-feed it as much poison as you can.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw people say they would add 10% opaque layers of the musk with Epstein's accomplice (whos name i forgot for a second and too lazy to look her up) photo. Would be nice if there was a tool to do so automatically. (Not that i post on twitter anymore).

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

tbh that sounds like a pretty easy script to write! Too bad I am not near a computer rn

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really need a script, though. Just open up photoshop or GIMP and add a layer after everything is finished.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

But that doesn't scale properly, you want ideally some sort of browser extension that just automatically does it for you before the data gets send to twitter.

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[–] JFranek@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be funny if someone was literally beating up servers with a wooden shoe.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought they were gonna do that themselves by feeding on their own outputs littered all over the www. Maybe they can use some help.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

that's also happening, but yeah it's going to have to be a team effort

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